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I’m an Associate Teaching Professor at Northern Arizona University where I design and teach courses in sociology, gender, and interdisciplinary studies. I’m an Assistant Dean in the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences where I supervise curriculum development and our General Studies plan. Check my Learning & Educational Development work under Teaching.
I’m an award-winning author and public speaker. I’ve been featured in The New Books Network Podcast, GRID news, Feminist Media Studies, Social Semiotics, Gender & History, QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, The Sage Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, Theater Research International, Lawyers, Guns, & Money, and The Lumberjack. My book, Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender Bending was named one of NBC’s “10 LGBTQ books to watch out for in 2020” and won the Popular Culture Association’a award for Best Book in LGBTQ Studies. You can check my profesh stuff in Publications or my salty stuff in Blog.
I received my PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara in Theater Studies with a Doctoral Emphasis in Feminist Studies. I’m an expert on social identity formation, having devoted a decade to studying expressions of sexuality and gender with an intersectional feminist studies frame, then applying to digital media, drag, and popular culture. I’m a DEI Affiliate for the Institute for Public and Professional Ethics in Leadership, a diversity auditor for Common Sense Media, and Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster kids. I grew up in Portland, OR so I’m weird and I don’t use umbrellas. I currently live in Flagstaff, AZ, which, situated at 7000 feet, is located at the base of the San Francisco Peaks and on homelands sacred to Diné and Indigenous folk throughout the region.
Meredith Heller 